Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1850; the diary of Margaret A. Frink (Living Voices of the Past) (Living Voices of the Past)
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Editor: Kenweth L. HolmesEdition: Audio Cassette
Published: 1999-04-26
ISBN: 0967188504
Publisher: Beverlys, Ltd
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Book Review: The Great Journey
Summary: 5 Stars
My great-great grandparents with an infant daughter journeyed overland from Missouri to California in 1850 and I read this book to learn something of their experience.
As the editors point out few women made the crossing by land and thus their accounts have great significance. This book contains the diaries and letters of six women who traveled by wagon and horseback across the Great Plains and the mountains of the West to a new home in California, Oregon, Utah, and New Mexico in 1850. Amongst their descriptions of terror and hardship are also homely tales of life on the trail and often the generosity and nobility of many of their fellows.
I was impressed most by the sheer numbers of the overlanders. Some 50,000 people took the Western trails in 1850, drawn mostly by the promise of gold in California. Accounts of the dust, the crowded conditions, and the inevitable cholera caught my attention. The journey across the plains and mountains was, as the editors note, the longest voluntary migration in history and one has to wonder why so many people left comfortable homes to journey west. The westward urge -- "Manifest Destiny" -- or whatever it might be called was a powerful force in 19th century United States. Indians and buffalo play surprisingly small roles in the accounts of the crossing. They were perhaps wise enough to keep their distance from the overlanders.
The editors have contributed good introductions to the book and each of the women.
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Summary of Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1850; the diary of Margaret A. Frink (Living Voices of the Past) (Living Voices of the Past)
The personal diaries of women crossing America in covered wagons told of the ingenuity, courage, bravery , loneliness, fear, boredom, excitement and danger they encountered. They were called "overlanders." Margaret Frink's diary was a great discovery describing her observations of the choldra epidemic, the social encounters with the Indians who followed the wagons and the cost of provisions along the way. It is three hours of adventure told by actress Susan Baxter.History Books
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